Mayflower Question

5. Squanto was really smart. He charmed his way into being close to Bradford and he was already close with Massasoit so that he had large influences over them. His power-hungry motives would be his downfall. He played on fears of both sides, especially when he told Massasoit the story about the plague the pilgrims kept in their barrels, actually full of gunpowder. When he told the sachem that the pilgrims could release the plague at will, he was taking advantage of being the only one that could speak both languages fluently. He used this to his extreme advantage. But for all of his little plotting, when things turned unexpected and left the sachem Massasoit, not himself, in charge of the area. Things would have been different between pilgrims and the natives and who knows how the world would be today.